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] New Police Station Opening
By CLINT CLAYBROOK
The grand opening
Hogansville Police Headquarters build-
ing has been pushed back until possibly
January by wet weather that has delayed
completion of the paving work, Police
Chief Guy Spradlin said this week.
Most of the paving in front of the
approximately $44)0,000 building on
Lincoln Street has been completed but
"We still have to complete the paving
out back," Spradlin told The Home News.
Earlier, the chief had said he hoped
to see the building in use b~ the end of
October, but that was before recent rains
soaked the lot near the city garage that
is home to the new facility.
Police and their admires" trative staff
are obviously looking forward to get-
tingout of their almost-ancient, cramped
quarters at the existing headquarfers
' ' in downtown Hogansville.
...~ Spradlin and city officials are also
• - ",lqgking at moving the municipal court
of the new h~g room from City Hall into the
new police headquarters, Spradlin
revealed. "We're looking at the (possi-
ble) legalities involved," he said.
Municipal court, at present, is held
in the City Council chambers at City
Hall.
The new police headquarters build-
ing was built entirely with money seized
from drug operations about two years
ago, primarily from "mules" hauling
their illicit cargo through HogansviUe
on Interstate 85 that have been arrest-
ed by city police en route through thier
town.
• Seizures of the "mules' and their
cargo also funded during that time, a
new fleet of police ears, most ff not all
of them with the newest technology
available, including in-car
and video cameras complete
ability to monitor the conversations (
police officers and suspects or
members of the public those
engage during their on-duty hours.
Spradlin said he's bought some
the new equipment he wants for
headquarters, but is still
other items such as filing cabinets.
It's unclear at the moment
handling Grantville's
calls for information about
licenses, wanted persons and
details during traffic stops, the
said, since that neighboring city
ly hired its own dispatcher/secretary.
Grantville has been in
the Coweta County
eral months over the county's
to handle police dispatching
Projects Finally Taking Shape in
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overseeing that project of
USC East of Atlanta, which
won the gas line replacement
contract with a bid of some
$1.7 million, according to City
Manager Randy Jordan.
In most areas where the
new line is installed, it'll go
under the old lines, whichwill
be emptied and capped,
Atkinson said.
As the work is completed
grid by grid, "We'll just have
to go back and re-light pilots
lights and stuff like that," he
told The Home New#. USC
East was the lowest among
14 bidders for gas line
rephcement.
Jordan said the gas line
replacement is being done
"highest loss areas first"
throughout the city. The com-
pany has one year to complete
that project, but the work
might not take that long.
USC East recently com-
pleted a similar project in
Manchester and has done
similar work in Colorado and
Kansas, Atkinson said.
When the new line is in,
the city expects bills to see a
big savings in revenue lost
because of leaks in the gas
lines, some 19 percent over
last year, Jordan said.
While that work is going
on, the city is also pressing
forward with its efforts to
replace some 1,400 old water
meters that serve its cus-
tomers, Jordan sai&
He said a decision to
replace the water meters was
nailed down after "We had a
cross-section of meters test-
e& We pulled them out of the
ground at random and the
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city manager said.
"They were
ing the usage by 20
which was costing
percentofwhat
been collecting annually
the sale of water.
"We're going to
reading meters which
also save on the cost of meter~
reading," Jordan said.
City utility crews
replace the water meters
project. That work will
started in the coming mon~
meters in small numbers
needed from
Metering of
for about $80 each. The
ond-lowest bid was $134
Hersey Meters
N. C., Jordan saicL
Replacement
meters-~
the city
in the future is
down the line, Jordan said.
What with Phase II
Streetscapes just ahead
homes coming on line and
normal routine of
ness, "We've got so
going on that we're
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